urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-97050e2c-bec8-4274-a3ee-4432f0a1f4bcIBM Software Community - Tags - kfc The IBM Software blog promotes thoughtful discussions and perspectives on how software is changing the way we live and do business.12015-07-17T23:37:26-04:00IBM Connections - Blogsurn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-10122310-d4a0-4a4b-bf6b-495942ec489eSoftware Newsletter Pick of the Week: Your chance to play Plankton to Google’s Mister CrabsMark ScapicchioSCAPICCH@US.IBM.COM270000CV2Jactivebcde08b8-816c-42a8-aa37-5f1ce02470a9Comment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikes2011-12-09T09:33:49-05:002011-12-09T09:33:49-05:00<p>The Colonel’s eleven herbs and spices. The Big Mac’s special sauce. The Coca-Cola formula. Everyone wants to know the secrets of successful companies, Trouble is, those companies typically guard those secrets with their corporate lives. (Maybe you remember the <a href="http://bit.ly/rQK3W6" style="font-weight: bold;">hoopla when KFC’s recipe was relocated a few years ago</a>.) So it’s a pretty big deal when a company like Google decides to ‘open the vault’ on its inner workings – and why our readers are stampeding to the on-demand webcast, <a href="http://bit.ly/uR2Dlj" style="font-weight: bold;">‘How Google Tests Software.’</a> Here James Whittaker, Google’s Test Engineering Director, explains how Google – a company that continually and rapidly releases software to hundreds of millions of users worldwide – can keep quality high, even with a completely lopsided developer-to-tester ratio. (Okay, it’s not the Crabby Patty formula, and it may not even impress your robot spouse, but it’s information any software development organization will want to know.) As a bonus, Whittaker talks about testing tools that Google is releasing to the open source community – meaning, tools you can use free of charge. <a href="http://bit.ly/uR2Dlj" style="font-weight: bold;">Register and replay the webcast</a>.</p>The Colonel’s eleven herbs and spices. The Big Mac’s special sauce. The Coca-Cola formula. Everyone wants to know the secrets of successful companies, Trouble is, those companies typically guard those secrets with their corporate lives. (Maybe you remember the...003208urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-97050e2c-bec8-4274-a3ee-4432f0a1f4bcIBM Software Community2015-07-17T23:37:26-04:00